English homophones
concord/Concorde
"concord" is a noun; "Concorde" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "concord" arrives as a noun, while "Concorde" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "concord" then splits - "concord" (7 letters) vs "Concorde" (8).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across concord, Concorde: cdnor. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
concord
7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVCC
Inventory cdnor · no private letters vs siblings
Concorde
8 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVCCV
Inventory cdenor · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "concord" when you mean: A state of agreement; harmony; union.
- Write "Concorde" when you mean: The Aérospatiale-BAC supersonic airliner, previously used commercially.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (concord, Concorde). Here's where to go from here.
- "concord" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #15,588 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: Sid · CID. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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